{"id":108,"date":"2013-01-22T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-01-22T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:00:11","slug":"meditation-really-can-change-the-brain-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Meditation really can change the brain, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that MBSR has the money and acceptance to get the studies and grants.  Thanks to the great work of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Kabat-Zinn\" title=\"Jon Kabat-Zinn\">Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/a> the clinic at UMASS, the power of these simple practices has been put under a microscope.  This is a verification study that backs up earlier studies and shows stronger causality between the MBSR practice and the results.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.world-science.net\/othernews\/110123_meditation'>Meditation really can change the brain, study finds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that MBSR has the money and acceptance to get the studies and grants. Thanks to the great work of Jon Kabat-Zinn the clinic at UMASS, the power of these simple practices has been put under a microscope. This is a verification study that backs up earlier studies and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=108\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbsr","category-scientific-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}